New from the JAMA Report

INTRO:Many homeless adults struggle with mental illness as well as substance use disorders. Most programs designed to help homeless individuals require them to first enter treatment, rehabilitation and then transitional housing. A new study evaluated a program where homeless adults transition directly from the streets or shelters to permanent housing, while also receiving intensive mental health support. Catherine Dolf has the details in this week’s JAMA Report.

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules taking cup out of cabinet

AUDIO
VO
HERCULES IS ENJOYING HIS NEW HOME.

AUDIO
SOT/FULLSuper@:03 Hercules – Study Participant Runs:07
“After 10 years of homeless, I felt like I was born again.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules in kitchen, pouring water into coffee cups, bringing coffee into dinging room and sits down talking with his support advocate

AUDIO
VO
After losing his business and then his mother, he became depressed. Hercules participated in the “Housing First” Program where homeless adults move directly from the street or shelters into permanent housing while working closely with a support team.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@:23 Vicky Stergiopoulos, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“Individuals with moderate mental health needs represents a very large segment of the homeless populations across North America.”

AUDIO
VO
Doctors Vicky Stergiopoulos (Stir-Jah-Puh-Lus) and Stephen Hwang (Wang) from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and co-authors, recruited about 12 hundred homeless individuals from four large cities across Canada. A little more than half the participants received rent supplements and intensive mental health support from project teams. The remaining participants did not receive rent supplements and were instead directed to services available in their community. Both groups were followed for up to two years.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@:57 Vicky Stergiopoulos, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“Individuals in the intervention group had much greater success in achieving stable housing compared to the usual care group.”

GXF FULL
JAMA COVER

AUDIO
VO
The study appears in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:10 Stephen W. Hwang, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“While the intervention is very successful, their overall quality of life did not improve significantly as a result of the intervention.”

(Video covering middle of bite: patient and advocate talking)

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Driving shot of apartment building and houses

AUDIO
VO
The “Housing First” model has been used for homeless individuals experiencing severe mental illness, who required intensive and costly support services.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:31 Stephen W. Hwang, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:12
“We can now broaden this model to include people who have more moderate needs for services and can do so at a lower cost than the more intensive version of the intervention.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules sitting at table talking, in bedroom with his cat making his bed

AUDIO
VO
Hercules has taken computer courses, meets regularly with his support advocate and even rescued his cat Leo. He also helps those who are still homeless, encouraging them to stay positive.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:49 Hercules – Study Participant Runs:08
“Just keep you chin up and see the green light that’s going to come at some point.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules on his balcony

AUDIO
Catherine Dolf, the JAMA Report.

TAG: The study was conducted in response to the growing number of homeless individuals all across Canada.

INTRO:Many homeless adults struggle with mental illness as well as substance use disorders. Most programs designed to help homeless individuals require them to first enter treatment, rehabilitation and then transitional housing. A new study evaluated a program where homeless adults transition directly from the streets or shelters to permanent housing, while also receiving intensive mental health support. Catherine Dolf has the details in this week’s JAMA Report.

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules taking cup out of cabinet

AUDIO
VO
HERCULES IS ENJOYING HIS NEW HOME.

AUDIO
SOT/FULLSuper@:03 Hercules – Study Participant Runs:07
“After 10 years of homeless, I felt like I was born again.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules in kitchen, pouring water into coffee cups, bringing coffee into dinging room and sits down talking with his support advocate

AUDIO
VO
After losing his business and then his mother, he became depressed. Hercules participated in the “Housing First” Program where homeless adults move directly from the street or shelters into permanent housing while working closely with a support team.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@:23 Vicky Stergiopoulos, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“Individuals with moderate mental health needs represents a very large segment of the homeless populations across North America.”

AUDIO
VO
Doctors Vicky Stergiopoulos (Stir-Jah-Puh-Lus) and Stephen Hwang (Wang) from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and co-authors, recruited about 12 hundred homeless individuals from four large cities across Canada. A little more than half the participants received rent supplements and intensive mental health support from project teams. The remaining participants did not receive rent supplements and were instead directed to services available in their community. Both groups were followed for up to two years.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@:57 Vicky Stergiopoulos, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“Individuals in the intervention group had much greater success in achieving stable housing compared to the usual care group.”

GXF FULL
JAMA COVER

AUDIO
VO
The study appears in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:10 Stephen W. Hwang, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:10
“While the intervention is very successful, their overall quality of life did not improve significantly as a result of the intervention.”

(Video covering middle of bite: patient and advocate talking)

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Driving shot of apartment building and houses

AUDIO
VO
The “Housing First” model has been used for homeless individuals experiencing severe mental illness, who required intensive and costly support services.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:31 Stephen W. Hwang, M.D., – St. Michael’s Hospital Runs:12
“We can now broaden this model to include people who have more moderate needs for services and can do so at a lower cost than the more intensive version of the intervention.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules sitting at table talking, in bedroom with his cat making his bed

AUDIO
VO
Hercules has taken computer courses, meets regularly with his support advocate and even rescued his cat Leo. He also helps those who are still homeless, encouraging them to stay positive.

AUDIO
SOT/FULL Super@1:49 Hercules – Study Participant Runs:08
“Just keep you chin up and see the green light that’s going to come at some point.”

VIDEO
B-ROLL
Hercules on his balcony

AUDIO
Catherine Dolf, the JAMA Report.

TAG: The study was conducted in response to the growing number of homeless individuals all across Canada.

Sign In

Special News Release >

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – FEBRUARY 12, 2015 CHICAGO – The JAMA Network launched its new journal, JAMA Oncology, today with a robust collection of articles reporting on new research, opinion and reviews. The featured research included: “Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer Syndrome,…

Special News Release >

The weekly JAMA Report is now available at http://jama.newsmarket.com/. Every Tuesday at 11 a.m. Eastern time, a new JAMA Report will be posted. The JAMA Report is a weekly video and audio new release highlighting a study appearing in the…

Special News Release >

The JAMA Network journals have recently published several articles on breast cancer. Here are the news release headlines, with links to the releases, studies, and JAMA Report videos: JAMA: Many Breast Cancer Surgery Patients Do Not Receive Shorter, Less…

Special News Release >

The JAMA Network journals have recently published articles on telemedicine. Here are the news release headlines, with links to the releases, studies, a JAMA Report video for one article and an author podcast for another: JAMA Psychiatry: Telemedicine Collaborative Care…

Special News Release >

JAMA has recently published several articles on sickle cell disease. Here are the news release headlines, with links to the releases, studies, and JAMA Report video for two articles: Sickle Cell Trait Among African Americans Associated With Increased Risk…

Special News Release >

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 3, 2014 CHICAGO – John S. Rhee, M.D., M.P.H., a professor and chairman of the department of otolaryngology and communication sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee, has been named the next…

Special News Release >

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 CHICAGO – The JAMA Network will launch a new journal, JAMA Oncology, to publish important cancer-related research and named Mary L. (Nora) Disis, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Washington,…

Special News Release >

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 CHICAGO – Stephan Heckers, M.D., M.Sc., chair of the psychiatry department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., has been named the next editor-in-chief of JAMA Psychiatry, one of nine specialty journals in the…

Special News Release >

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUGUST 29,2014 CHICAGO – Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., professor of surgery and vice chair of research in the department of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has been named the next editor-in-chief of JAMA…

Special News Release >

JAMA has a new series of articles, the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods. These articles will provide explanations about statistical analytic approaches and methods used in research reported in JAMA articles, to help readers better understand clinical research reports. These…